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And so ends the most competitive first round we have ever seen, with 38 points required to qualify for round 2. Last year, 19 points secured a place; before that, 11 (2012) or 8 (2011) were enough. This is both a blessing and a curse. While it shows the vigourous good health of the competition, it also means that we have already lost many worthy competitors. Our top three scorers were:

1. Godot13 (submissions), a WikiCup newcomer whose high-quality scans of rare banknotes represent an unusual, interesting and valuable contribution to Wikipedia. Most of Godot's points this round have come from a large set of pictures used in Treasury Note (1890–91).
2. Adam Cuerden (submissions), a WikiCup veteran and a finalist last year, Adam is also a featured picture specialist, focusing on the restoration of historical images. This month's promotions have included a carefully restored set of artist William Russell Flint's work.
3. WikiRedactor (submissions), another WikiCup newcomer. WikiRedactor has claimed points for good article reviews and good articles relating to pop music, many of which were awarded bonus points. Articles include Sky Ferreira, Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus and "Wrecking Ball" (Miley Cyrus song).

Other competitors of note include:

• Hahc21 (submissions), who helped take Thirty Flights of Loving through good article candidates and featured article candidates, claiming the first first featured article of the competition.
• Prism (submissions), who claimed the first featured list of the competition with Natalia Kills discography.
• Cwmhiraeth (submissions), who takes the title of the contributor awarded the highest bonus point multiplier (resulting in the highest scoring article) of the competition so far. Her high-importance salamander, now a good article, scored 108 points.

After such a competitive first round, expect the second round to also be fiercely fought. Remember that any content promoted after the end of round 1 but before the start of round 2 can be claimed in round 2, but please do not update your submission page until March (UTC). Invitations for collaborative writing efforts or any other discussion of potentially interesting work is always welcome on the WikiCup talk page. Remember, if two or more WikiCup competitors have done significant work on an article, all can claim points equally.

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion about defining lists
  • Open RfAs: לערי ריינהארט, Pamputt
  • Closed RfAs: Epìdosis (Successful)
• Events/Press/Blogs
  • Wikidata scholarships for the Zürich Hackathon
  • Wikidata FOSS Outreach Program for Women
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: unemployment rate, manner of death, file extension, received signal, prevalence, connecting service, first performance, Universal Decimal Classification, Chinese Library Classification, Dharma Drum Buddhist College place ID, Dharma Drum Buddhist College person ID, MEP directory identifier, Rodovid ID, handle, Gewässerkennzahl, LIBRIS editions, numeric value, visitors per year, Geokod, approximation algorithm, transmitted signal
  • Showcase item: Why not improve Kleinmachnow (Q104192) to showcase standard?
  • Wikidata's presence: vici.org are using Wikidata identifiers in their data storage
• Development
  • Made loading items a lot faster
  • Enabled access to the data on Wikidata for Wikisource
  • Fixed the diff view sometimes showing the wrong revision
  • Attended ConFoo and learned all of the things
  • Released Wikibase DataModel Serialization 0.1
  • Continue work on caching javascript config variables in parser cache
  • Started to make Wikidata even faster by removing StaticExpert and BifidExpert
  • Started reviewing interface animations. You should be able to disable them all by setting $.fx.off = true; in your Special:MyPage/common.js.
  • Fixed Wikidata looking a bit odd when enabling the Typography refresh Beta feature.
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the MedlinePlus ID (P604) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 18:38, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
11		Munxar (talk)						Add sources
73		Connaught Rangers (talk)						Add sources
197		Walter Reed Army Medical Center (talk)						Add sources
9		Jung District, Incheon (talk)						Add sources
44		Royal Dublin Fusiliers (talk)						Add sources
13		Bupyeong District (talk)						Add sources
20		Incheon National University (talk)						Cleanup
214		The Mill on the Floss (talk)						Cleanup
21		Blue Eagles (talk)						Cleanup
8		Yeonsu District (talk)						Expand
2,887		Spotify (talk)						Expand
17		29th Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Expand
151		Mervyn King (economist) (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
1		Kasino Point (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
180		Erich von Falkenhayn (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
11		Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (talk)						Merge
36		I Spy (2003 TV series) (talk)						Merge
130		Kernel methods (talk)						Merge
11		Raoul Magrin-Vernerey (talk)						Wikify
10		History of the Scots Guards (1946–present) (talk)						Wikify
11		Theodor Fliedner (talk)						Wikify
0		Acadiana Educational Endowment (talk)						Orphan
1		Arson Is For Lovers (talk)						Orphan
2		Allan Basbaum (talk)						Orphan
5		Seo District, Incheon (talk)						Stub
2		48th Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
2		31st Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
3		Ara Canal (talk)						Stub
4		76th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
1		40th Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub

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Thanks. I find the ship infobox really confusing, which is why I decided to leave it without one for now! Andrew Gray (talk) 18:27, 3 March 2014 (UTC)

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On 4 March 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article HNoMS Thorodd, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Norwegian minesweeper HNoMS Thorodd was best known for her mascot, a St. Bernard called Bamse? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/HNoMS Thorodd. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

Thanks for another contribution Victuallers (talk) 08:02, 4 March 2014 (UTC)

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Discussion about enabling GuidedTours on Wikidata
  • Open RfA: ElfjeTwaalfje
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Wikiquote will get language links via Wikidata on April 8th. Coordination is happening at d:Wikidata:Wikiquote
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: portal's main topic, Finnish municipality number, carries scientific instrument, upper stage booster, river basin category, mode of inheritance
• Development
  • Added more details to the diffs of time and geocoordinate values (will show which globe the coordinate is on and so on now as well)
  • More work on badges by Bene* - most work left is now in the GUI part of it
  • Removed unneeded and unused permissions/rights
  • Fixed a bug concerning spaces in quantities (bugzilla:61911)
  • Started work on taking ranks into account for queries, the property parser function and Lua. (By default only preferred values should be used if available. If not available then it should use values with rank normal.)
  • test2.wikipedia.org and test.wikipedia.org now use test.wikidata.org as their data repository, instead of wikidata.org
  • Started work on WikibaseInternalSerialization component
  • Released Wikibase DataModel 0.7 - https://github.com/wmde/WikibaseDataModel/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES.md
  • Added indexes to Wikibase QueryEngine
  • Improved SQLite support in Wikibase Database
  • Started moving virtual machine instances of various test systems to the new Wikimedia Datacenter
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the sport (P641) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

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Views/Day	Quality	Title	Content	Headings	Images	Links	Sources	Tagged with…
45		Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching (talk)						Add sources
7		Child and Family Services Review (talk)						Add sources
13		29th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Add sources
671		Regiment (talk)						Add sources
24		15th (Scottish) Infantry Division (talk)						Add sources
3		Lincolnshire County Division (talk)						Add sources
1,450		Gerrymandering (talk)						Cleanup
22		42nd (East Lancashire) Infantry Division (talk)						Cleanup
9		Gyeongin National University of Education (talk)						Cleanup
12		11th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Expand
1,323		Swine influenza (talk)						Expand
54		Thomas Chalmers (talk)						Expand
309		Peppered moth evolution (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
178		George Bradshaw (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
6		Prague Writers' Festival (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
23		Land Force Central Area (talk)						Merge
21		Land Force Western Area (talk)						Merge
10		Horse-drawn railway (talk)						Merge
7		Ongjin County, Incheon (talk)						Wikify
2		Deputy (Acadian) (talk)						Wikify
428		Mongol invasion of Europe (talk)						Wikify
22		Military service by the members of the British Royal Family (talk)						Orphan
1		Academic Centre (talk)						Orphan
1		Acción obrera (talk)						Orphan
20		Coat of arms of Cameroon (talk)						Stub
5		7th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
2		74th Brigade (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
9		45th Infantry Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Stub
1		150th (York and Durham) Brigade (talk)						Stub
4		4th (Quetta) Division (talk)						Stub

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25		II Corps (United Kingdom) (talk)						Add sources
68		Sherwood Foresters (talk)						Add sources
68		Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (talk)						Add sources
91		Duke of Wellington's Regiment (talk)						Add sources
249		Kegworth air disaster (talk)						Add sources
156		Royal Regiment of Scotland (talk)						Add sources
259		Erich Raeder (talk)						Cleanup
34		79th Armoured Division (United Kingdom) (talk)						Cleanup
3		Hampshire County Division (talk)						Cleanup
16		56th (London) Division (talk)						Expand
45		63rd (Royal Naval) Division (talk)						Expand
800		Canadian Army (talk)						Expand
43		Royal Regiment of Canadian Artillery (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
449		Propaganda techniques (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
589		Aerolinee Itavia Flight 870 (talk)						Unencyclopaedic
283		Photographic filter (talk)						Merge
35		5th Canadian Division (talk)						Merge
111		Appeal to fear (talk)						Merge
29		52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division (talk)						Wikify
74		Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment) (talk)						Wikify
8		West Riding Artillery (talk)						Wikify
4		Battle of the Ypres-Comines Canal (talk)						Orphan
1		Discovery (Canadian TV series) (talk)						Orphan
12		Battle of Moscow order of battle (talk)						Orphan
87		UV filter (talk)						Stub
37		Kolín (talk)						Stub
2		Sir Derrick Gunston, 1st Baronet (talk)						Stub
39		General officer commanding (talk)						Stub
3		Ministry of Agriculture and Food (Bulgaria) (talk)						Stub
2		Turner Memorial Hospital (talk)						Stub

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Here's your quick overview of what has been happening around Wikidata over the last week.

• Discussions
  • Notability of items
  • Organisation of statements, sitelinks and external identifiers
• Events/Blogs/Press
  • Media Hack Days, Berlin March 22nd-23rd
  • Ateliers Wikidata, Bordeaux, France March 22nd-23rd
• Other Noteworthy Stuff
  • Happy Pi Day
  • paper by Denny Vrandečić and Markus Krötzsch
• Did you know?
  • Newest properties: NLC authorities, Atlas ID, fuel system, supercharger, ID (General Administration of Press and Publication), ISMN, NUKAT authorities
• Development
  • Changed the {{property}} parser function and Lua’s mw.wikibase.entity.formatPropertyValues to only return the statements ranked as preferred or if none are available the ones ranked as normal (This will probably go live on April 25th.)
  • Worked on improving page load time further by reducing the number of reloads during page loading
  • Made diffs for time and geocoordinates more complete and prettier
  • Continued research for user interface redesign
  • Tpt worked on optionally showing links to other sister projects in the client’s sidebar (bugzilla:54374)
  • Wrote a fix for Wikidata changes not showing up in the client’s watchlist (bugzilla:62149)
  • Updated a major chunk of our inline code documentation
  • Continued discussing technical details about how coordinates should be stored in Wikibase
• Monthly Tasks
  • Fix a format or content violation for the Léonore ID (P640) property
  • Hack on one of these.
  • Help develop the next summary here!
  • Contribute to a Showcase item

Read the full report · Unsubscribe · John F. Lewis 22:29, 14 March 2014 (UTC)